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syllabus

[sil-uh-buhs] / ˈsɪl ə bəs /


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For students at UC Riverside, the start of fall semester means picking up their class syllabus, catching up with friends and snapping selfies with the adorable wild donkeys that roam around the school.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

In 2015, with jamming and cyberattacks no longer hypothetical, the Navy put the subject back on the syllabus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

I revised the syllabus to accommodate the expanding model.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

At universities, the ban has restricted access to online research and course materials, with one Herat student saying he had used his phone to help with about half the syllabus.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

Ms. Singh hands out our syllabus, and I flip through it, scanning for all the titles we're going to read this year.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

You tell Muse to check the syllabi for her classes and order all the books to her dorm room.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

His evaluation isn’t exhaustive, since he couldn’t access some syllabi, and some didn’t include all readings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Students hesitate before volunteering their opinions in class, while faculty appear more cautious, even including disclaimers in their syllabi.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2025

Reges then wrote to an Allen School listserv saying he would continue putting his parody land acknowledgment in syllabi.

From Seattle Times ● May 7, 2024

I was ready to taste the dining-hall food, memorize the campus map, and conquer whatever syllabi they wanted to throw my way.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Campus syllabuses have been pared down to accommodate this generational change.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

The story won the Paris Review’s 2013 Plimpton Prize for Fiction and has appeared on syllabuses at other universities.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026

The notion is expressed in the survey results, which found wide variation in how faculty members mention AI use in syllabuses or whether they encourage or discourage AI in classes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026

Discussion of new class schedules and syllabuses, and the excitement of students learning their friends were in the same course, filled the plaza between the Student Union Building and campus library Wednesday morning.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2023

Very careful syllabuses were prepared and widely circulated, and the whole scheme was intended to be educational rather than directly propagandist.

From The History of the Fabian Society by Edward R. Pease


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